The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-12-22
The Call to Chicago.

The following call for the next N rational
Convention has been issued by
the National Republican Committee
To the Republican Electors of the United
States
In accordance with usage and obedient |
to the instructions of the Republican Ma
tional Convention of 1854, a National Con-
vention OF delegated representatives Of the
Repu uican party will be held at the City
of Chicago, ILL.,. on Tuesday. the 10Th day |
June. 1883, at u clock noon, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President to be supported
at the next national election and for the
transaction of such other business as may |
be there presented.
Republican electors in the several States
and voters without regard to past political
atfliation differences or action who be
lieve in the american principle of a pro-
tective tariff for the defense and develop
ment of home industries and the elevation
of home labor; who would reduce the ma
tional taxes and prevent the accumulation
of the surplus in the treasury in harmony
with this principle: who are opposed to the
attempt now more openly avoWed than ever
before to establish IA policy which would
strike down American labor to the level of
the underpaid and oppressed workers OF
foreign lands; who favor system of naval
and coast defenceS which will enable the
United States to conduct it's international
negotiations with self-respect: WHO CRATE
| fully cherish the defenders Of the country;
| who condemn and resent the continued
and unjust exclusion of rapidly growing
| territories, which have an undlsputed title
| 10 admission into the sisterhoOd of States:
who are in favor of free schools and pop
! ular education, free and honest ballot,
and fair count, the protection OF every
citizen of the United States in his legal
rights at home and abroad, a foreign policy
| that shall extend our trade and commerce
| to every land and cline and shall properly
support the dignity of the Nation and the
promotion of friendly and harmonious re-
| lations and intercourse between all the
| States, are cordially invited to unite under
this call in the formation of national
| ticket.
| Each State will be entitled to four dele
/ gatesat large, and for each representative
at large two delegates, and each congress
sional district, each territory and the Dis.
trict of Columbia to two delegates.
The delegates at-large shall be chosen
by popular State conventions called on not
less than twenty days published notice
and not less than thirty days before the
meeting of the National Convention. The
congressional district delegates shall oe
chosen in the same manner as the nomi-
nation of member of Congress is made
in said districts. The territorial delegates
shall be chosen in the same manner as a
a nomination of delegates in Congress is
made. The delegates from the District
of Columbia shall be chosen at a conven-
tion constituted of members elected in
primary district assemblies. held under
the call and direction of the Republican
Central Committee of said district. An
alternate delegate for each delegate in the
National Convention, to act in case of the
absence of the delegate, shall be elected in
the same manner and at the same time as
the delegate is elected
All notices of contests must be filed
with the National Committee, in writing,
accompanied by printed statements of the
grounds of contests, which shall tie made
public. Preference in the order Of hearing
and determining contests will be given by
the convention in accordance with the
dates of filing of such notices and state
ments with the National Committee.
| (Signed) B. F JONES, Chairman
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Sec y.
Washington, Dec. 9, 1887.